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Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

The Sunken Ruin houses all the learning of a long-forgotten age.

Search for Azcanta

At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then if you have seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may transform Search for Azcanta. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)

Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin

(Transforms from Search for Azcanta.)
{T}: Add {U}.
{2}{U}, {T}: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.

Safe havens amid the desert and dragonstorms, Abzan fortresses attract merchants, travelers, outcasts, and exiles.

Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Once guarded by the Knights of the Reliquary, the tower stands now protected only by its own remoteness, its dusty treasures open to plunder by anyone.

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Dragonstorm chasers are not deterred by danger—they claim there is nothing like witnessing the land embracing the power of a storm.

Evolving Wilds

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

The House's geography constantly warps and twists, fields melting into floorboards and walls opening into hungry maws.

Terramorphic Expanse

Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Those who bring nothing to the temple take nothing away.

Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Rumors quickly spread among thieves about a labyrinth without walls and a prize beyond all measures of worth.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Island

Its students graduate the school and enter history.

Minamo, School at Water's Edge

{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: Untap target legendary permanent.

Its secrets once wrought the greatest artifice ever known. Now crabs loot the rubble to decorate their shells.

Academy Ruins

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Put target artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Cephalid Coliseum

{T}: Add {U}. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold — {U}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Tolaria West

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with mana value 0, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

"Were I to go where my heart dwells, I would now be wandering in the fair valley of Rivendell."
—Aragorn

Rivendell

Rivendell enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {U}.
{1}{U}, {T}: Scry 2. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Gemstone Caverns

If this card is in your opening hand and you're not the starting player, you may begin the game with Gemstone Caverns on the battlefield with a luck counter on it. If you do, exile a card from your hand.
{T}: Add {C}. If Gemstone Caverns has a luck counter on it, instead add one mana of any color.

There is beauty in the uncertainty of potential.

Prismatic Vista

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Talon Gates of Madara

When this land enters, up to one target creature phases out.
{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color.
{4}: Put this card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Archway of Innovation

This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
{T}: Add {U}.
{U}, {T}: The next spell you cast this turn has improvise. (Your artifacts can help cast that spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Mystic Sanctuary

({T}: Add {U}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Lonely Sandbar

This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {U}.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Lumengrid, site of the Knowledge Pool, source of vedalken arcana.

Seat of the Synod

Unlike previous conflicts, the war between Urza and Mishra made Dominaria itself a casualty of war.

Strip Mine

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.

Hedrons perplex minds both great and small.

Hedron Crab

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target player mills three cards.

"You should try to clear your mind of idle thoughts. And if you can't, I will."

Jace's Erasure

Whenever you draw a card, you may have target player mill a card.

Manic Scribe

When this creature enters, each opponent mills three cards.
Delirium — At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard, that player mills three cards.

Those wound tightest are first to unravel.

Fraying Sanity

Enchant player
At the beginning of each end step, enchanted player mills X cards, where X is the number of cards put into their graveyard from anywhere this turn.

A step in one direction is two steps away from another.

Mesmeric Orb

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

"Captain, I think that island is following us."

Fleet Swallower

Whenever this creature attacks, target player mills half their library, rounded up.

He was left with just enough memory to understand what he had lost.

Traumatize

Target player mills half their library, rounded down.

"It is not that you will go mad. It is that you will beg for madness."
—Volrath

Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Pongify

Some spellcrafting mistakes go on to become spells of their own.

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.

Rapid Hybridization

Frog Lizard

"From the day we are born, we do our best to survive. We fight. We run. We fear. But we cannot protect ourselves from change."
—Ark, lizardfolk blacksmith

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.

Windfall

Each player discards their hand, then draws cards equal to the greatest number of cards a player discarded this way.

"Your mind was a curious mix of madness and genius. I just took away the genius."
—Jace Beleren

Mind Sculpt

"To break another's mind is to deliver a fate worse than death. It is a terrifying power."
—Jace Beleren

Psychic Corrosion

Whenever you draw a card, each opponent mills two cards.

Folio of Fancies

Players have no maximum hand size.
{X}{X}, {T}: Each player draws X cards.
{2}{U}, {T}: Each opponent mills cards equal to the number of cards in their hand.

"You will do the thinking for the both of us!"

Psychic Possession

Enchant opponent
Skip your draw step.
Whenever enchanted opponent draws a card, you may draw a card.

The creations of the hand are confined by reality. The creations of the mind know no such limits.

Mind Unbound

At the beginning of your upkeep, put a lore counter on this enchantment, then draw a card for each lore counter on this enchantment.

Only when two oracles speak in unison is an omen accepted as truth.

Thought Reflection

If you would draw a card, draw two cards instead.

"The cost of your opposition will be extracted from your wits."
—Nekusar, the Mindrazer

Propaganda

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Mystic Remora

Cumulative upkeep {1} (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {4}.

Rhystic Study

Archival Whorl

Friends teach what you want to know. Enemies teach what you *need* to know.

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Counterspell

The Izzet specialize in unnatural disaster.

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

"The past is the foundation for all that exists in the present. We merely reconstruct what our ancestors have already discovered."
—Sachimir, Sage of Memories

Visions of Beyond

Draw a card. If a graveyard has twenty or more cards in it, draw three cards instead.

Teferi's Puzzle Box

At the beginning of each player's draw step, that player puts the cards in their hand on the bottom of their library in any order, then draws that many cards.

"The Filigree Texts do not compel you to act in accordance with their precepts. They only specify the consequences should you fail."
—Lodus of the Ethersworn

Memory Erosion

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, that player mills two cards.

Swan Song

Bird

"The most enlightened mages create beauty from violence."
—Medomai the Ageless

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Leyline of Anticipation

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
You may cast spells as though they had flash.

Soul-Guide Lantern

When this artifact enters, exile target card from a graveyard.
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile each opponent's graveyard.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Dominaria's most extravagant crypt nevertheless holds an empty grave.

Tormod's Crypt

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile target player's graveyard.

"You've never considered the implications of dealing with another telepath, Jace."

Sphinx's Tutelage

Whenever you draw a card, target opponent mills two cards. If two nonland cards that share a color were milled this way, repeat this process.
{5}{U}: Draw a card, then discard a card.

"You've begun to understand the hedrons' true purpose," said Ugin. "The Eldrazi can be imprisoned."
"And how did that work out last time?" asked Jace.

Hedron Archive

{T}: Add {C}{C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards.

Coalition Relic

{T}: Add one mana of any color.
{T}: Put a charge counter on this artifact.
At the beginning of your first main phase, remove all charge counters from this artifact. Add one mana of any color for each charge counter removed this way.

Mardu lightning fences are the ingenious synthesis of blacksmith skill and stormsinger magic, protecting their dalkovans from even the most fearsome dragonstorms.

Sol Ring

Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Over such beauty, wars are fought. With such power, wars are won.

Gilded Lotus

Dimir mages put the lanterns to good use, creating shapeshifters and sleeper agents from mana foreign to them.

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

"We have barely begun to learn the secrets of the Fourth People. Every remnant of their presence, however cryptic, is a gift."
—Akal Pakal, First Steward of Oteclan

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Gerrard: "But it doesn't do anything!"
Hanna: "No—it does nothing."

Null Rod

Activated abilities of artifacts can't be activated.

Mycosynth Lattice

All permanents are artifacts in addition to their other types.
All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are colorless.
Players may spend mana as though it were mana of any color.

Sometimes it's useful to take a break from existence.

Ghostly Flicker

Exile two target artifacts, creatures, and/or lands you control, then return those cards to the battlefield under your control.

Debates between wizards are never purely academic.

Arcane Melee

Instant and sorcery spells cost {2} less to cast.

"It augments anamnesis. What is so confusing about that?"
—Perisophia the philosopher

Mnemonic Wall

Defender
When this creature enters, you may return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Traxos, Scourge of Kroog

Trample
Traxos enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step.
Whenever you cast a historic spell, untap Traxos. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Suddenly he realized that everything was connected by invisible strings, strings that could be pulled—or cut.

Banishing Knack

Until end of turn, target creature gains "{T}: Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand."

Elite Arcanist

When this creature enters, you may exile an instant card from your hand.
{X}, {T}: Copy the exiled card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. X is the mana value of the exiled card.

"Nobody asked you to butt in, Jace. But thanks."
—Chandra Nalaar

Dramatic Reversal

Untap all nonland permanents you control.

Aphetto Alchemist

Morph

{T}: Untap target artifact or creature.
Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

When a strong mind moves, form and energy shift to heed it.

Freed from the Real

Enchant creature
{U}: Tap enchanted creature.
{U}: Untap enchanted creature.

Mana Matrix

Instant and enchantment spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.

The greatest treasure of the deep is an echo from above.

Salvager of Secrets

When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

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